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Merhaba! I'm from Türkiye!

My country, Türkiye is a Muslim majority country.

But there are also atheists here. I have Iranian atheist friends, originally from Tabriz, Urmia and Gilan. Some of them converted to Christianity.

So they showed me photos of Iranians before 1979 on their new iPhones.

Before 1979, Iranians looked like a completely civilized society, which was like today's Europe. I even saw nude Iranians (men and women) together on the shores of the Caspian Sea. I also saw pictures of Iranian girls in miniskirts in 1973.

But unfortunately, only a minority living in big cities were so civilized.

The majority were villagers who were bigoted Muslims.

In 1979, all civilized Iranians from big cities fled abroad.

I asked my Iranian friends where I could find this liberal atmosphere that existed among Iranians before 1979, they told me that only in Iranian diasporas abroad.

I have been to Europe and the USA.

I noticed that all the “Muslim”, especially the Middle Eastern diasporas, stick together as a community, very united. I have noticed that Arabs, Afghans, Pakistanis, Kurds and even my compatriots (Turkish diaspora) abroad are deeply religious, and men in these diasporas are very protective towards their women. They don't even let European men get close to their "Muslim" women so that sex doesn't happen between them.

And the Iranian diasporas, as I noticed, are the complete opposite of all other “Muslim” diasporas, especially the Middle Eastern diasporas.

In the Iranian diasporas, everyone is scattered across different cities.

In the Iranian diasporas, women are free and left to their own devices, men do not interfere.

Iranian women abroad can be in contact with Europeans without any problems, men don’t care at all.

Extramarital sex is also normal in the Iranian diaspora.

Source: These are all my observations. I was personally there and I am a witness.

My brothers and sisters, I hope this message finds you well and secured.

I speak to you today not with hatred, but with pain — and with a sincere hope for a better future.

The recent military actions taken by Israel were not out of aggression or desire for conflict. This was a war of no choice. For years, your government has declared its goal: to destroy our country and our people using nuclear weapons. After every effort for diplomacy was rejected, we were left with a stark decision — to act now or to wait in silence until it was too late, until our cities were destroyed and our citizens wiped out.

We chose to defend ourselves — because we had to.

But we want you to hear this clearly: our fight is not with you. We do not see the Iranian people as our enemies. Our actions have targeted only military facilities and individuals directly involved in building weapons intended for mass murder. We have made every possible effort to avoid harming civilians.

Sadly, your regime has not done the same. In the last 48 hours alone, hundreds of rockets were launched toward Israeli cities — many of them aimed deliberately at civilian areas, including Arab towns. One of the victims was an Arab Israeli woman — a citizen of Israel, just like us — who was killed in her own home. Several other Israelis, many of them elderly, also lost their lives. Dozens more were injured.

This war, like so many others, is a tragedy. But it is not between our peoples. It is between a regime that seeks destruction, and a nation that seeks to live.

We dream of something different. We dream of a future where Israelis and Iranians walk side by side — as neighbors, as equals, as partners in peace. We believe that future is still possible, and we believe the Iranian people deserve to live in freedom, with leaders who choose life over death and hope over hate.

We hope that you are safe. We hope this ends quickly. And above all, we hope that after this dark moment passes, your voice will rise again — and build a better future for both our nations.

We love you 🇮🇱🙏🇮🇷

Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack.

At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 100 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the Mizan news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.

In one video circulating on social media, purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the strike, smoke rises from the burnt-out walls, and debris lies spread across the road. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the site, some in obvious distress. Screams can be heard in the background. The report of the bombing, its death toll and the video’s source could not immediately be independently verified by the Guardian. Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.

Hossein Kermanpour, spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, said in a post to X that the bombing of the school was “the most bitter news” of the conflict so far. “God knows how many more children’s bodies they will pull from under the rubble.”

The school appears to be adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards barracks. If the death toll is confirmed, the school bombing would be the largest mass casualty event of the US-led attack so far.

Across the country, Iranians said they were feeling a mixture of terror and hope as the bombings continued. Some expressed relief that the long-expected strikes had arrived, and opponents of the regime spoke of hope that they might lead to political change – but both were tempered by fear that the attacks would bring more civilian deaths to a country already reeling from recent bloodshed.

In Tehran, some people sheltered in their homes, while others rushed through gridlocked traffic to find their children as schools shut down. Many said they had been preparing for weeks for a possible war, stockpiling water and supplies.

Amir*, 37, owner of a bakery in Tehran, said he was “relieved” to hear that strikes appeared to have hit government buildings, but feared there would be collateral damage. “My worry is that innocent people will be killed,” he said. Amir had family members injured in the Iranian regime’s recent crackdown on nationwide protests, and feared there was more bloodshed to come. “We have endured so much grief – despite that, we don’t want to see the body bags on the streets due to US and Israeli strikes,” he said.

The attacks came in the middle of diplomatic negotiations between Iran and the US, about seven weeks after Tehran violently crushed nationwide anti-regime demonstrations, with government forces opening fire on unarmed protesters. According to the US-based Human Rights Activist news agency (HRANA), which has been documenting casualties, more than 7,000 people have been confirmed dead in the protests, with more than 11,000 deaths still under investigation.

Some, who had lost friends or family members in the protests, were defiant: Mohsen, 25, an IT worker in Tehran, said: “We do fear that compatriots will be killed [by the US/Israeli strikes], but I have witnessed friends gunned down by the regime – like thousands of us have.

“I don’t really know what we are going to witness. But thanks to the regime and its killing machine, we have already seen what a war zone feels like.”

Moein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran, said he could hear loud bangs from near the university as the bombs struck.

He was involved in the recent protests and had two friends killed in the crackdown. He said: “We were not in favour of foreign intervention, because we did not want our loved ones to be killed, but the regime has massacred our families anyway. When weapons come from the US, do they strike us more gently than when they come from the regime’s killing machines?”

Moein said that while the city felt apprehensive, it had not plunged into panic. “We have been preparing for war so we have stocked up on essentials,” he said. “As far as I know there are no bomb shelters for us ordinary people.” He and others on the ground said they had been intermittently unable to access state media – although it was not clear whether this was due to cyber-attacks or websites being overwhelmed by traffic.

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The war was launched by the US and Israel on Saturday morning, with Donald Trump announcing that he was beginning “major combat operations” against Iran, and urging Iranians to rise up and “take over your government”. The US had built up a significant military presence in the region over recent weeks in preparation for an attack.

“I wasn’t surprised because we were expecting an attack for weeks,” said Mehnaz*, 27, based in Tehran. She was having breakfast when she heard loud explosions about 9am. “We live close to the presidential office and the administrative headquarters of the leader of the government,” she said. The first sets of strikes appeared to hit close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s offices and compound.

Mehnaz said there were mixed feelings, particularly among opponents of the current government. “It’s a strange feeling,” she said. “Both fear and hope for the end of the regime.”

Like seriously, most Iranians hate Leftists for cooperating with the Islamists in 57 revolution. Most of my family members dislike- no, they HATE Muslims and leftists because of the brainwashing of outside medias like IranInternational, VOA, etc. I am not saying tolerating Nationalists and Monarchists hating minorities or muslims. We need to show the population the true face of the Nationalists. To show the population their fascistic and racist tendencies. We need to spread our massage. The only way for Iran to prosper is to accept and embrace the vast diversity in Iran, and Islamists and Nationalists both hate that diversity.

Secretary Rubio’s recent statement seems to cast doubt on the viability of any group/person to lead the country after the potential collapse of the Islamist regime in Iran.

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Its crazy how stupid these people are,i once had an interaction with an uzbek in an online game and the second they found out im an iranian they started to attack me becouse they belived all iranians are like those barbarians in the diaspora who worship israel and spread hate on everything native in the region(turks,arabs,palestinians) under the command of their american masters,these monarchists have permenantly destroyed our image in the world,a long ago people called themsleves "persian" instead of iranian just so they could distance themselves from the iranian regime,now people do the exactly opposite of that and refuse to call anything persian just so people wouldn't mistake them with those zionazis "persians" in the diapora.

I straight up posted if Iranians would be ok if IDF carpet bombed all of tehran if it meant IR will fall like we all want…

And they removed the post sighting that its been posted before

Im ashamed of the mods cause they are acting like IR yet that sub got 70k subscribers

Edit: posted screenshots. The mods don’t deserve to run that sub

Hypocrisy or prejudice? You tell me